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Clarify public WebSocket availability in Flashblocks docs #1409

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Summary

Several Base docs pages currently imply that the public wss://*.base.org endpoints can be used directly for Flashblocks subscriptions.

What I observed

A WebSocket upgrade request to the public Base RPC endpoints returns 405 Method Not Allowed instead of establishing a subscription connection.

Impacted areas

  • RPC overview
  • eth_subscribe
  • Flashblocks FAQ
  • newFlashblocks
  • newFlashblockTransactions
  • pendingLogs

Suggested fix

Update the docs to clarify that:

  • the public base.org RPC endpoints are currently HTTP-only
  • subscription-based Flashblocks usage should go through a node provider or a self-hosted Flashblocks-aware node
  • examples should avoid suggesting direct use of wss://mainnet-preconf.base.org

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